The Influence of Occupational Identity on Emotional Experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3756972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Em K Maloney (Duke University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-124 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027642211066053 |
| OpenAlex | W4214833757 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
How does occupational identity shape emotional experience? Prior work has largely framed occupation and emotion either in terms of how differences in occupational status structure the experience of powerful, negative emotions or how cultural norms enforce types of acceptable emotional expression in workplaces. Complementing this work by using an identity-centered approach, this paper asks how being in one occupational identity versus another influences the emotions one is likely to experience in everyday life. I argue that one's occupational identity generates daily interaction sets with typical others, which create opportunities for identity maintenance and confirmation. Affect Control Theory predicts that when individuals confirm identities within an interaction, they will experience the characteristic emotion of the identity. Using data from the General Social Survey's 1996 emotions module, I find support for the hypothesis that individuals will report experiencing emotions that are closer in cultural meaning to the characteristic emotion of their occupational identity more often than emotions that are more different in cultural meaning. I additionally explore how this relationship depends on the social location of the individual. I find that this relationship is stronger for men, those with higher income, and more educational credentials
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics) · Emotion work · Identity (music) · Meaning (existential) · Social group · Social identity theory · Communication · Critical Realism in Sociology · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Social Psychology
Symbolic interactionism as affect control
Expressive Order
GlmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling
Identity Theory
The Managed Heart
The Segregation Premium
Occupational Status and the Experience of Anger
Tastes, ties, and time
Occupational identity
Verification of Self Using a Mathematical Theory of Identity, Feeling, and Behavior
The Causal Ordering of Prominence and Salience in Identity Theory
Impressions of Goodness, Powerfulness, and Liveliness from Discerned Social Events
Race Doesn't Matter, but
Emotional Expression at Work and at Home
Addressing the Problem of Cultural Anchoring
The Embedded Self
The Strength of Weak Identities
Emotions and Identity Nonverification
Modified social identities
Why You Should Always Include a Random Slope for the Lower-Level Variable Involved in a Cross-Level Interaction
Where you are, what you want, and what you can do
Identity Processes and Social Stress
Self, Identity, and Social Institutions
The Structure of Deference
Why Status Matters for Inequality
The socio-emotional basis of human interaction and communication
The Glass Escalator
Resources and Identity Verification from an Identity Theory Perspective
The Glass Escalator, Revisited
Racializing the Glass Escalator
Said and Done' Versus 'Saying and Doing
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |